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Friday, 3 April 2015

Winners And Losers

Now that the
Eton Bawl Game has taken place, aka the TV debate of the leaders of the major
parties, a grim struggle in an enclosed and crowded arena; or it might be the
Chipping Norton Sevens, in which all the nations are the losers, the media is
in full cry. We did not watch,
preferring something serious and where the performers knew what they were doing
and the meaning of what they said.

By all
accounts Nicola Sturgeon of the SNP did very well. I did say a few days ago that she was
intelligent and persuasive. She reminds
me of my grannie, maiden name Scott and of Nesbitt descent, whose lucid and
informed exposition of the inherent theology of The Bible reduced young members
of the clergy to shivering heaps of sinful flesh.

However The
Bible and for that matter the collected dogmas of the factions of the further
Left, as in the SNP, are little guide when it comes to advancing science and
technology and the mechanisms of global financial operations. The Bible deals with eternity and The Left
deals with long term planning and ordering the future.

In the last
few days some Labour MP's of the Left from northern England have avowed they
would join the SNP in frustrating austerity and cuts. This has led to shock horror surprise when it
ought to be very obvious that tracts of northern England have a great deal more
in common with Scotland than they have with the south.

The border settlement
of 1328 was a long time ago, even by my standards and the Scots have an ancient
claim to old Northumbria. The SNP should
consider claiming the area to the north of the line of the Mersey to the
Humber.

The picture
above is of Frith Street in Soho in the late 1940's when I first knew it. Take away the vehicles and the lighting and
put in some horse and carts it would be much as when Karl Marx was around the
corner in Dean Street living with a cook and a confectioner; both Italians,
Morgan Kavanagh with his myths and theories of religion and a George Osborne
running the nearest pub.

It all may be
academic, the markets are turning iffy and the Baltic Dry has dropped, as I
keep saying and grannie would have agreed there is no long term any more and
may be not medium term either.